Billy Gunn on All Out 2022 Backstage Brawl Incident Involving CM Punk and The Elite & Triple H’s Shot At AEW At 2019 WWE Hall Of Fame Ceremony Was ‘A Dick Move” By Him

Inside The Ropes held a recent interview with AEW coach Billy Gunn. One of the topics discussed included Gunn’s thoughts about the infamous backstage brawl incident involving CM Punk and The Elite (Young Bucks & Kenny Omega) at AEW’s All Out 2022 event in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.

“I wasn’t around for that. I knew the incident that happened, and it was what it was. They just have to realize that sometimes, there are certain veterans that aren’t going to put up with that shit, no matter what. If you’re a young buckaroo and you want to poke the bear, get ready to get bit. I think that’s what happened. I don’t know the whole details; that’s between them.”

Gunn also gave his thoughts about how things like that were handled during his time in WWE.

“Vince (McMahon) had things under control really good. I don’t have to like you to work with you. I just have to do business. 99.9% of the guys always do that. There will be a spat every now and then where you just pull them into a room, shut the door, and you don’t do it in public or in front of the boys. If you have a problem, we fix it now, so that when you walk out the door, we don’t have a problem anymore. That’s how grown-ass people deal with shit. Nowadays, we don’t, and that’s sad.”

Gunn also gave his thoughts about WWE CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque’s dig at AEW in response to fans in the crowd chanting “AEW” during Degeneration X’s induction as a group into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2019 and how it was a “dick move” by Levesque.

“I knew it was coming. I kind of knew they were going to do something AEW because it was hot at the time and I was there and they were all wondering how I got to go there, and that’s because Tony Khan was super cool. I went, asked, and he said ‘100%. Of course you can. I would never hold you back from that.’ I didn’t know what they were gonna do, but I knew they were going to do something. I also knew that if they were, Hunter was going to have something to say. Once I set myself up for that, I just let it go. The only one that got hurt out of that whole deal was him. I don’t want to say it, but it was a dick move. It was kind of trying to save face, and you didn’t need to because it’s going to happen. It’s the wrestling business. It’s what we do. They like to stir up shit. When you have somebody in another company, which was me, they can’t believe it, and then you see me, they have to do it. It’s like an unwritten thing in a book. ‘If another guy is in another company, we have to say or do something.’ They started chanting it, and you get a response from the guy leading the company.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com 1 & 2